Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary

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Definition of a play with tragic events and unhappy ending

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tragedy

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Poetic meter: 5 stressed syllables + unstressed

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Iambic pentameter

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Remark heard by audience, not characters

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Aside

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Character defect causing protagonist's downfall

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Tragic flaw

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Comparison without 'like' or 'as'

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Metaphor

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Blank verse

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Reader knows something character doesn't

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Dramatic irony

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Long speech by one character

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Monologue

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Ordinary form of written language

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Prose

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Extreme exaggeration

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Hyperbole